It seemed so easy: to post an audio clip to your blog, choose the little musical note icon when choosing to upload a file, and voilà! Well . . . not so fast . . . Ten days later, I finally resolved it.

So I wrote a “How-to” not only for myself, but also for others, just in case this topic kept tripping someone else as well . There’s also a link at the bottom of this post where I answer a request for help on Audio files And for an up-to-the-minute overview of WP Media, go here: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/media-uploader-overview/

-A. How to properly upload Audio files in WordPress

-B. How to properly encode the WordPress Audio Player; and

[-C. The WP Help file contained an error and has been fixed already…]

(IMPORTANT NOTE: specific Audio formats only become available for upload once you